The Schmidt Pain Index was first devised by entomologist Justin Schmidt in 1984. It rates the bites and stings of insects in terms of pain, on a scale of 0 up to 4, and over the years the accompanying descriptions have begun to read more and more like

The Schmidt Pain Index was first devised by entomologist Justin Schmidt in 1984. It rates the bites and stings of insects in terms of pain, on a scale of 0 up to 4, and over the years the accompanying descriptions have begun to read more and more like

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